refactor: Relax collection constraints, gate vendored modules by python version, update ci versions [citest_skip]

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Enhancement:

• Remove the centralized ansible.posix and community.general version caps so all roles track the latest releases.
• Add variables for is_rh_distro
• Update CI actions versions

Reason: The caps (ansible.posix <2.2.0, community.general <12.0.0) existed to preserve compatibility with older managed nodes. That is now handled inside the roles by selecting a vendored module or the latest collection module based on the managed node's python version (latest community.general needs python >= 3.7, latest ansible.posix needs python 3), so the central caps are no longer needed.

Result: Roles pick up the latest ansible.posix and community.general, while older-python managed nodes (e.g. EL7) keep working via the vendored modules.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Petrosian spetrosi@redhat.com

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